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...though John Stockholder could afford to grin at most of these reports he saw last week another set of reports, not of what business had been like in July, August and September but of what it had fallen to last week...
...Iron & Steel Institute (which under its new NRA code had just begun to make official weekly reports on steel operations) slapped John Stockholder square on his grin with the announcement that steel operations were at 26.1% of capacity, not anywhere near the 59% high of the third quarter...
Major Langley also put the creature's length at 80 ft., and likewise saw it waving its head near a rock. It was, in fact, said Major Langley, scratching its neck on the barnacles-after which, with something like a grin of gratification, it swashed off toward Chatham Island. It had, said Major Langley, a shaggy head with a long prognathous jaw and a face like a camel...
...passing of Ring Lardner stills another beloved but misunderstood voice. Mr. Lardner, like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips...
Second big effort of the Administration was to try to get the bankers to grin & bear the deposit guarantee feature of the new banking law. Flatly Mr. Jones told the bankers: "Those of you who think you are going to get rid of deposit insurance at the next session of Congress simply do not know your Congress...